Fasten your bucket-list seat belt

8:16 PM,
Apr. 6, 2013

Written by

Jim Mullen
Commentary

Lots of people are making Bucket Lists: things they want to do before they kick the bucket. There's a danger in doing that, and it's not just tempting fate. What happens if you don't do it all? Or any of it? Who wants to feel bad that they didn't get to Paris or Rome, that they never took that cruise to Alaska, that they never got to surf at Waikiki?

Yes, life is short and we should squeeze in all the living we can, but don't forget to reward yourself for all the things you didn't do. For every item you put on your Bucket List, you should put one on your Un-Bucket List - the list of all the things you don't want to do ...